- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Oscar F., who was born in Zawalów, Poland to a family of seven children. He recounts Soviet occupation at the outbreak of war; German invasion in 1941; his oldest brother's draft into the Soviet army (they never saw him again); hiding with his brother to avoid round-ups; escaping to the woods with his brother after his family was taken into the ghetto; joining a group of Jews; digging bunkers in various locations; avoiding Ukrainian partisans who killed the Jews in hiding; liberation by Soviet troops in March 1944; traveling with Soviet troops to Buchach; fleeing with his brother to Skole; leaving to avoid being drafted; traveling to Austria; and emigrating to the United States in July 1949.
- Author/Creator
- F., Oscar.
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1988
- Interview Date
- May 15, 1988.
- Locale
- Poland
Zawalów (Poland)
Buchach (Ukraine)
Skole (Ukraine)
- Cite As
- Oscar F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-991). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Blumenthal, Norman, interviewer.
